Boot-cleaner



(NoModel.)

T. MGOLUSKEY.

Boot Gleaner.

No; 240,528. Patented April 26,1881.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICEo THOMAS MGGLUSKEY, OF BELLEVILLE, NEW JERSEY.

BOOT-CLEANER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 240,528, dated April 26, 1881.

Application filed February 23, 1881. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, THoMAs McCLUsKEY', of Belleville, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Boot and Shoe Cleaners, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a boot and shoe cleaner tobe used mainly in front of a residence for removing the mud and dirt, to take the place of the scrapers occupying the same position 5 and it consists in connecting, with a suitable frame and operating mechanism, two roller-brushes designed, by their rapid revolution, to speedily remove any loose mud or dirt from a boot or shoe.

Figure l is a front elevation, and Fig. 2 is a side elevation.

At the lower end of a suitable frame, A, I

hang two horizontal revolving brushes, B, on

the shaft O. These brushes are made of bristles, splints, or some other suitable material, having usually a concave surface.

On the shaft (l is a small gear, D, Working into connecting-gears D', connecting it with a larger gear, E, hung on a shaft, on which is also the crank F, Within reach of the hand of the person Wishing to clean his boots, &c. The larger wheel gives increased speed to the brushes.

On the top of the frame is the cross-bar Gr, having the ends tted to be used as supports for the hands Whileoperating the machine.

Below the brushes are dirt-boxes H, to the top of which, on the rear side, is attached a kind of elastic scraper, I, the edge of which, 35

coming against the brushes, Works off the dirt that. may have a tendency to stick to them down into the boxes.

In operation, a man steps up to the machine,

and takes hold of the bar with one hand and 4o turns the crank with the other, and applies his boot or shoe to the cleaner,right or left, and soon iinds, by turninghis foot from side to side, partly over, the dirt removed from the bottom and sides.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A boot and shoe cleaning machine having the revolving brushes B hung on the shaft C at the base of the vertical frame A, pro- 5o substantially as and for the purposes set forth. 6o

THOMAS MCGLUSKEY.

Witnesses HORACE HARRIS, GEO. B. ADAMS. 

